Dallas: This all seems like “I’ll scratch yours, if you scratch mine,” I realize, but the definition of serendipity is nothing more than a happy coincidence, and sure enough, no sooner had I written about Hugh Jackson and his Las Vegas Gleaner , than I get a note from him that he has responded to a local …
Category: Labor Organizing
WARN Forces Wal-Mart to Blink
St. Petersburg: Close readers will remember the earlier entry here that detailed the WARN fight against the Wal-Mart proposal to build a super center on wetlands on Gandy Road in St. Petersburg. The day after a heavily attended and well covered roadside protest including all of the WARN alliance of organizations from ACORN to Sierra Club to …
Who Was that Masked Man?
Washington: Sometimes my colleague and comrade, Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s Field Director, kids me by saying, in what I sometimes pretend is sincere sympathy, rather than bitter irony, that, “It’s not easy being, Wade, the chief organizer, is it?” And, in that vein, since I have your attention now that I’m marching as part of the union …